The First Symposium
of the Penn Working Group in Language

PLEASE PRE-REGISTER HERE!  
April 17, 2004
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Venue:
Academic Wing of the University Museum
(Kress Wing Entrance - see entrance marked (1) on the map)
Session A: Room 345, Session B: Room 330, Plenary Session: Rainey Auditorium
Map of the Campus
Photo and Address of the Academic Wing

The goal of the Penn Working Group in Language is to bridge Penn's diverse strands of research in language, to provide a cross-disciplinary forum for discussion, and to establish a resource network for graduate students. To foster these goals, the working group is sponsoring a one-day session for graduate students to showcase recent research on language in their respective disciplines.

For more information, please view the schedule of events and the talk abstracts (pdf), or contact a member of the organizing committee listed below.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SESSION 1A: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (Room 345)
Chair: Jiyoon Lee (GSE) Educational Linguistics
SESSION 1B: CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC CONTACT (Room 330)
Chair: Carmen del Solar Valdés (SAS) Linguistics
10:00 am Discourse, Identity and Christian Formation
TAMARA WARHOL, Educational Linguistics (GSE) 		Aspects of Loanword Adaptation in Continental French
MICHAEL FRIESNER, Linguistics (SAS)
10:30 am Cyberdiscursive Tug-of-War: Learner Repositioning in a Multimodal CMC Environment
SHANNON SAURO, Educational Linguistics (GSE) 		What did the Korean grandmother say to the turkey?’: Joking around in Korean, English, and Konglish
SONYA GWAK, Education, Culture & Society (GSE)
11:00 am Speaking like a therapist: Conversational moves, control and accountability in therapeutic interaction
MARIAELENA BARTESAGHI, Communication (Annenberg) 		‘Communicative Lingerings’: An exploratory study of the emergence of ‘foreign’ communicative features in the interactions of American expatriates after re-entry
LAURA SICOLA, Educational Linguistics (GSE)
11:30 am 15-MINUTE BREAK
SESSION 2A: LANGUAGE LEARNING AND ACQUISITION (Room 345)
Chair: Sophia Malamud (SAS) Linguistics
SESSION 2B: COVERT AND META-DISCOURSE (Room 330)
Chair: James Mesbur (SAS) Linguistics
11:45 am Teaching and Learning Health Science in English-as-an-Additional-Language Contexts
VERONICA MORRISON, Higher Education (GSE) 		Deep Language and Persistent Culture: Learning to Speak the ‘Tongue of the Orichas’ in Cuban Santería
KRISTINA WIRTZ, Anthropology (SAS)
12:15 pm Verb Learning Meets Parsing
SUDHA ARUNACHALAM, Linguistics and Psychology (SAS) 		Women’s Speech: An Example of Covert Language Policy in Japan
RIKA SAITO, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (SAS)
12:45 pm LUNCH
SESSION 3A: EMERGENCE & INNOVATION (Room 345)
Chair: John Laury (SAS) Linguistics
SESSION 3B: MINORITY LANGUAGES (Room 330)
Chair: David Cassels Johnson (GSE) Educational Linguistics
2:00 pm A Familiarity Effect on Copula Contraction in English
SUZANNE EVANS WAGNER, Linguistics (SAS) 		Multilingualism in India’s Census, Constitution, and Educational Policy: The Context for Linguistic Minorities in India
CYNTHIA GROFF, Educational Linguistics (GSE)
2:30 pm Towards an automatic graded-reader filter
SEAN MCGREW Educational Linguistics (GSE) 		Swedish Minority Language Rights in Ecolinguistic Perspective
FRANCIS M. HULT, Educational Linguistics (GSE)
3:00 pm Classifier Predicate Representations for an English to American Sign Language Machine Translation System
MATT HUENERFAUTH, Computer and Information Science (SEAS) 		The Impact of Phonological Change on Morphology: A Case Study from Maya Languages
SERGIO ROMERO, Linguistics (SAS)
3:30 pm 15-MINUTE BREAK
PLENARY SESSION Rainey Auditorium
3:45 - 5:00 pm STEPHANIE STRASSEL (LDC), CHRISTOPHER WALKER (LDC), ALEXIS MITCHELL (LDC), MEGHAN GLENN (LDC), SHUDONG HUANG (LDC) & JONATHAN WRIGHT Linguistics (SAS)
Language Resource Creation and Distribution at the Linguistics Data Consortium

5:15 pm

HAPPY HOUR
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Shannon Sauro - Chair    (Educational Linguistics)
Luke Fleming    (Anthropology)
Michael Friesner    (Linguistics)
Francis Hult    (Educational Linguistics)
Kara Jackson    (Education, Culture & Society)
Kyung-Nan Koh    (Anthropology)
Sophia Malamud - webmaster    (Linguistics)
Costas Nakassis    (Anthropology)
Maya Ravindranath    (Linguistics)
Kristina Wirtz    (Anthropology)

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